Sheep in the Road

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Socialism
This
chapter instigated by the previous one and a need
to focus. Often I am stifled in discussion by a clever-arsed
‘Of course socialism is a wonderful idea but with human
nature (wrongly labelled as greed) its just unattainable…’ I
am then deflected into arguing that human nature (if there
is such a thing) is a very changeable commodity, and what
is true of today’s fetishism with individualism and private
wealth amongst a minority of the world’s population was
and will not always be the case.
The dynamics of capitalism have developed the means
to meet the needs of every person on the planet – but
because it is rooted in the anarchy of the market, it fails
millions of people with its accompanying waste, wars
and unfulfilled promises. Because capitalism is geared
to profit it has a tendency to over-production and product
placement where the money is and not where its needed,
resulting in a glut of products and services in the rich
wasteful west and a paucity in so-called destitute third
world countries. Violence and wars developed in feudal
times for the acquisition of lands and peoples for a
monarch and/or landed gentry, are now much more
sophisticated and an integral part of capitalism. Violence
and economic sanctions are used by nations with the clout
to pacify, dictate, acquire … and generally speaking, the
threat of violence is developed, glorified and paraded,
much as any playground bully would, to dominate and/
or preserve the status quo.
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